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The films of
Jean-François Stévenin
Jean-François Stévenin
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L'Enfant sauvage (1969) François Truffaut |
Out 1: Nolie me Tangere (1971) Jacques Rivette |
Une belle fille comme moi (1972) François Truffaut |
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| When this film was released in France in 1970, it was not only a surprising success with both the critics and the paying public (Truffaut himself believed the film would flop because of its austere... [More...] | Out 1 is like a more avant-garde Thomas Pynchon, or Honoré de Balzac on drugs. A true piece of art, it’s unpredictable, a darkly epic tragedy one moment... [More...] | Une belle fille comme moi is François Truffaut’s first and only sortie into black comedy, a film that is in marked contrast to his earlier films... [More...] |
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La Nuit américaine (1973) François Truffaut |
Barocco (1976) André Téchiné |
L'Argent de poche (1976) François Truffaut |
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| Probably the most entertaining film ever made about film making, La nuit amércaine was a triumph for film director François Truffaut. Not only is this a great film... [More...] | Barocco is in essence a great film which has been savagely mutilated through a combination of not entirely convincing acting and excessively self-conscious photography... [More...] | In between his lavish period dramas and romantic comedies, François Truffaut made a slight detour in the mid-1970s with this almost documentary-style portrait of young school children at play in a small provincial... [More...] |
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La Tortue sur le dos (1978) Luc Béraud |
La Guerre des polices (1979) Robin Davis |
Allons z'enfants (1981) Yves Boisset |
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La Guerre des polices is a fine example of the kind of hardboiled, gritty French thriller that emerged in the late 1970s, following the trend for greater realism and explicit violence that had been set by Hollywood filmmakers... [More...] | This is a painfully poignant film adaptation of Yves Gibeau’s controversial 1952 novel. It explores with uncompromising frankness and lucidity one of the most troubling aspects of the French education system of... [More...] |
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Psy (1981) Philippe de Broca |
Passion (1982) Jean-Luc Godard |
Une chambre en ville (1982) Jacques Demy |
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| The therapy culture, an emerging phenomenon in France in the late 1970s, is an area which is ripe for satire, and Philipe de Broca’s comedy Psy manages to tap into this rich vein with great success... [More...] | Depending on your predisposition towards Jean-Luc Godard, or your stamina, this is either an intriguing development of Godard’s art form, challenging the fundamentals of film making... [More...] | Genial ce film !!! Chante du debut a la fin, il m’a beaucoup emu je l’ai vu dix fois. J’adore deja les comedies musicales mais tout le temps chante encore plus genial !!! Dans la meme veine que les parapluies... [More...] |
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Notre histoire (1984) Bertrand Blier |
Tenue de soirée (1986) Bertrand Blier |
Vent de panique (1987) Bernard Stora |
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| In a similar vein to Blier’s splendidly surreal Buffet froid, Notre histoire takes conventional themes, such as bourgeois hypocrisy and obsessive love... [More...] | French film director Bertrand Blier is no stranger to controversy, and in Tenue de soirée he frames possibly his most explicit and shocking view of the devastating power of human sexuality... [More...] |
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